The Delta independent., 1887-02-01
TELEGRAPH BREyTTIES.

Terrible stories are told of dance
house horrors in Northern Michigan.
Between 800 and 400 of Edison's men
are on a strike on account of the discharge
of boy.
The Wisconsin legislature sends Mr..
Sawyer to the United States Senate for an
other term.
The Woman Suffragists are holding
Washington.
The Texas Legislature has appropri.
ated 500. 600 for the relief of the sufferers by
the Texas drOuth.
1t required six hundred policemen to
preserve order at st. Stephens church, New
York, last Sunday.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
Red Cross Society, has gone to Texas to
help relieve the suffering in that State.
The new comet has been observed at
Cordova, South America. 1t is believed
that it will be as brilliant as the comet of
1880.
An effort is being made to have Sen
ator Van Wyck appointed one of the Com
missioners under the new Interstate Com
merce bill.
The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill
as 1t was reported to the Senate calls for
81, ,G93, $50. This is sSl.945 in excess of the
act of 1855.
Sullivan's combination has disbanded
and the slugger says he will not be able to
meet Cardiff before May l. His broken arm
troubles him.
The Senate in executive session re-
jec.ed the nomination of Mr.. Mathews, the
colored lawyer, TO be Register of Deeds for
the District of Columbia
An immense ice gorge formed in the
Susquehanna River at Port Deposit Mary
land, and many houses in that town are
flooded by the back water.
Canada is very much worried and eX-
cited on account of the retaliatory measures
this Government proposes to inaugurate be-
cause of the fishery dispute.
II is estimated at the Pension Bureau
that there are Si.,is men and IS, sec widows
who are entitled TO pensions under the
terms of the Mexican pension bill.
The Treasurer's report shows that
the invested funds of the Harvard Uni
versity amount to 81, 100, az, an increase
over the previous year of about $4,000.
Queensland has been swept by a tor
nado accompanied by heavy rainfall.
ba a., fr,f ,i.
Brisbane were submerged by twenty feet OF
water
The battery of four boilers at Spang,
Chalfant & Co.'S steel and iron works, six
miles east of Allegheny City, exploded and
wrecked the building. One man killed and
dozen wounded.
A law has been rushed through the
Michigan legislature which subjects allper-
sons who keep or attend dance horses to a
maximum penalty of five years imprison-
ment and 600 fine.
A party of Poles who We're on their
age for Europe We're set upon by gang of
coal strikers and terribly beaten. They were
mistaken for coal shovelers.
The people in the southern part of
Sumner county, Kansas, have raised fund
of $500 to prosecute the United States Cav
airy who recently drove a small party of
trespassers out of the Indian Territory.
Samuel Claiborne. the publisher of
paper at o'Neil City, Nebraska, together
with his wife and one Tebault. were driven
from the town by masked vigilance COM
mttee on account of some scandalous busi-
ness.
The London News says the Govern
ment is alarmed on account of its having
heard that Germany is likely within few
days to ask France to explain the meaning
of the French military movements on the
frontier.
There was demonstration in Madi-
son Square Garden Saturday night in com
plment to Michael Davitt and his wife, at
which nearly 10000 people We're present.
Daritt made n strong speech In behalf of
DR.. McGlynn.
Two hundred cases of gunpowder
while in transit over the Missouri Pacific
railroad exploded while near Fort Scott,
iiViSIt cshS,
killing brakeman, and destroying about
$4,000 worth of plate glass in neighboring
buildings.
Patrick McDermott, living near
Bloomington, Nebraska, recently got drunk
and hislegs and arms were so frozen that
they had to be amputated. He has since
died. His brother, Charles, drank the liq-
uor with which Patrick $ wounds were wash
ed and it killed him.
Frank Holmes. n hunter in the Mic h
igan woods, while setting his traps, hurt
his leg badly, and Joseph Armstrong, his
companion, went for help. When he re-
turned, an hour later, he found only a few
bloody bones and ave dead wolves which
Holmes had killed before the pack de-
voured him.
The Hawaiian Gazette says new
island has been discovered in the Pacific
Ocean in latitude l degree and IS minutes
south, longitude las degrees and - minutes
east. 1t is two and half miles long and
tree covered. The Gazette says 1t has been
named Allison Island, but by whom 1t was
discovered or named is not stated.
The Scottish Protestant Alliance has
sent to Queen Victoria memorial setting
forth that the aypressions of the Papacy in